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Tuesday 18 June 2013
Barrowful of support for Anglesea garden
Barwon Heads canoe polo player Kal Rawson in action.
Kal puts paddle to the medal A COUPLE of Barwon Heads boys who attend Saint Ignatius College shone at the recent Victorian Canoe Polo championships. Year 8 student Kal Rawson recently won a gold medal representing the Victorian Canoe Polo Under 18 A team. The team was also successful winning a silver medal in an invitational in Nagambie against a strong Australian contingent of teams. Canoe polo is a ball game involving a range of skills including throwing, paddling, passing and eskimo rolling. There is a goal net suspended above the water. Professionally, canoe polo is played in a 50 metre pool or in a river. Kal plays for both Geelong and Victoria and trains in the Barwon
River from September until March every Monday after school. Kal said he hoped to be selected to play for Australia next year. “I love playing canoe polo as it is a mix of a lot of sports such as volleyball, netball and water polo. “It is a mental and physical sport and involves a lot of tactics which I enjoy.” Year 10 student Marcus Neild began to play earlier this year and represented Victoria also at the Nationals at Kardinia pool in the B team, where the team took out a silver medal. A spokesperson for Saint Ignatius College said the school community congratulated Kal and Marcus on their efforts and wished them well in their future endeavours.
ANGLESEA Community Garden members were thrilled to receive a wheelbarrow filled to the brim with garden supplies from the Anglesea Lions Club and Bunnings Torquay last week. Members from the garden were pleased to hear their request for a wheelbarrow had been granted but were surprised and delighted to find it was also filled with gardening goods on Wednesday. Incoming Anglesea Lions president Ken Mollison thanked Bunnings for their generosity in providing the barrow and said he was pleased to be able to use the Lions’ funds to support the community group in their endeavours. “Encouraging the community to be active, grow their own food and eat healthily was an ideal to be supported,” he said. Bunnings team member Debbie Jenkins said Bunnings was committed to contributing to the community and she was delighted to join with Lions in helping the group. The Anglesea Lions contribution to the wheelbarrow is part of their annual distribution of funds, and they are thrilled to announce more than $20,000 will be distributed among local, national and international groups and donations will be made to disaster relief, spinal cord research and drug awareness programs. Other major local recipients of the grants are the Aireys Inlet Skate Park, Anglesea FoodLink, Anglesea Primary
Anglesea Lions incoming president Ken Mollison with Anglesea Community Garden members and grant recipients Winsome Coutts and Jocelyn Cox and Bunnings team member Debbie Jenkins and complex manager Mick Gann.
School, the Anglesea Football and Netball Club, Torquay Scouts and the provision of three scholarships for students at Anglesea and Aireys Inlet Primary Schools valued at $500 each. Anglesea Lions has just 13 members and raises in excess of $25,000 annually,
primarily through its Riverbank Market in January and two major raffles it conducts during summer. If you would like to assist the Anglesea community through the Lions Club ask Peter at the Anglesea IGA for information.
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